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This 6 page paper looks at the welfare benefits that are available to asylum seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom and how these have changed since the 1990’s limiting the rights and potential benefits that can be claimed by asylum seekers. The bibliography cites 20 sources.
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File: TS14_TEwelrefuge.rtf
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welfare benefits. The legal position an rights have been discussed in a former paper, the purpose of this paper is to look at what welfare benefits are available to asylum
seekers ands refugees. This has changed greatly over the last half a century. As a signatory to the 1951 Geneva Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights there
is an inherent responsibly placed in the UK government to provide welfare benefits to those who come seeking help and in need. However, in line with many other countries the
way these are given has been constrained. It was often, wrongly, believed, that the UK was a target for asylum seekers due to the easily accessible welfare benefits system (Burnett
and Peel, 2001). The movement to restrict welfare payments and related benefits stared in the Benelux countries by making it more difficult to claim refugee status (Cochrane and Clarke, 1997,
Hall, 1996). If we look at the way in which welfare benefits can be claimed the position is very different for asylum seekers and those who have been granted refugee
status (Geddes, 2006). There have been many changes in the way welfare benefits have been paid and the reliance that asylum seekers have to place on the welfare state.
Initially asylum seekers would have had the rights to the same non contributory welfare benefits that UK citizens had (Kaye, 1999, Malcolm, 1995). However this was deemed to be too
easy by many members of the electorate and the postnatal to cut costs was also a motivators and the result was the development of the NASS. However, this has been
a controversial move, as it has reduce the level of welfare support that any asylum seeker will be given, this includes financial support of only 70% of the rate given
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